15:30 -16:15 hrs
Dr. Miller serves as Vice Dean for Research Strategy and Innovation and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He is an international leader on the exposome. Dr. Miller founded the first exposome center in the U.S. and wrote the first book on the topic. He has helped develop high-resolution mass spectrometry methods to provide an omic-scale analysis of the human exposome.
Dr. Miller directs the Exposomics Core in Columbia’s Irving Institute Precision Medicine Resource, which supports integration of environmental measures into clinical and translational research projects. He is a member of the NIH All of Us Research Program Advisory Panel and the NIEHS Advisory Council. Dr. Miller is the founding editor of the new journal Exposome, published by Oxford University Press.
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
New York NY USA 10032
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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